BWA Wrocław
Four galleries of contemporary art in the very centre of Wrocław, connected by a program and an idea. We present art and design in their new, sometimes surprising, manifestations. BWA Wrocław exhibitions, events and publications often take the form of socially engaged art. Our galleries and Żyjnia – a city health resort in Świdnicka Street – function as the so-called third place. One may visit them regardless of the events taking place, bring a dog, relax and have some drinking water. It feels like home with us.
Dark Paradise: Inner Tales
Dark Paradise is a tale woven around monstrosity — an ambiguous and multivalent category. BWA Wrocław Główny gallery is transformed into a shadowed garden, an entanglement of wonder and dread inviting visitors to traverse its uncanny recesses, along the way marveling at form and confronting revulsion. The curators of the upcoming exhibition at BWA Wrocław Main Gallery — Magdalena Lazar and Katarzyna Oczkowska — conceive of it as a contemporary dark fairy tale. Dark Paradise: Inner Tales focuses on the body and its […]
Angels Left in the Cloakroom
Angels Left in the Cloakroom is an exhibition by two queer artists, Michał Kowalczys and Michał Iwański, presented at BWA Wrocław Main Station gallery. The project draws on their personal memories, as well as explorations of psychogeography and the archaeology of memory. The exhibition of paintings is complemented by video projections, metal installations and objects made of wood and tin. Due to high temperatures, […]
“Forms of Meaning.” Contemporary Polish Ceramics at the 6th UNICUM International Ceramics Triennial 2026 in Ljubljana
Ceramics is no longer just a craft – today, it increasingly becomes a field of experimentation and a way of narrating contemporary realities. In Ljubljana, as part of the 6th UNICUM Ceramics Triennial 2026, a presentation of works by a younger generation of Polish artists and designers will be on view from May 15. The exhibition “Forms of Meaning. Contemporary Polish Ceramics” will be one of the […]
The Lifery exhibition-situation: Summer Season / Solar Negotiations
Solar Negotiations is the summer edition of The Lifery exhibition-situation, curated this season by Bogna Świątkowska. The exhibition’s point of departure is the time it takes for the Sun’s light to reach the Earth: 499 seconds. This delay is enough to unsettle our most fundamental understanding of the present. Throughout this summer at Świdnicka 2-4, visitors will engage with […]
Szklarki. The Body in Tensioned Material
Szklarki is an exhibition by three women artists whose practice bridges craft, technology, and art; they work in a material burdened with the history of gender divisions and notions of who “should” be working with it. All summer, at SIC! BWA Wrocław Gallery we will be presenting ten of the artists’ works, using glass to speak of the body and the identity in its […]
Gothic Fever
Gothic Fever is an exhibition drawn to the darkness pooling between the glare of two suns. One blazes over Latin America; the other will scorch Wrocław. As part of the Art Scene program of the 26th TAURON New Horizons International Film Festival, we will expand the geography of gothic sensibility. Its tropical inflections will refract like rays through […]
Curator-led and artist-led tour of the Gothic Fever exhibition
Join us for a special guided tour of the “Gothic Fever” exhibition as part of the 26th TAURON New Horizons International Film Festival. Let’s explore together how the gothic genre serves as a versatile framework for expressing rebellion, discovering one’s identity, and commenting on reality. We’ll see what connects the sensual fervor of the South with our local penchant for […]
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